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Are they though? in which language? I was under the impression that the traditional 'catch' block has the stack unwound for it back to a frame with the same le

• tomp 15y ago
  Dynamic bindings are characterized by being bound not by the nearest preceding code at compile-time, but by the nearest preceding code at run-time. Therefore, the way I understand it, the important bit is not the relationship between a try and a catch, but between the throw and the catch. You could imagine throw as a call of the function last_catch(Exception e), which is dynamically bound by one of the "parent" functions (functions below on the stack).